Glass button



UNrrn ARAD W. WELTON, OF CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT.

GLASS BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,337', dated October 12, 1852.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABAD W. WELTON, of the town of Cheshire, in New Haven county, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Mode of Manufacturing Glass-Centered Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof.

My improvement consists in impressing upon the concave or under side of the glass centers of buttons, any desired figure, and painting or enameling such figure with colors uniform or variegated. The center is formed in the usual mode of manufacturing glass centers for but-tons, except that the die which is intended to impress the desired ligure upon the glass, instead of having a plain surface as heretofore, is cut in the form adapted to produce such figure. The figure thus impressed is then painted or enameled with such colors as the fancy or taste of the operator may dictate. The form and dimensions of the figure being already fixed by being impressed into the glass, it is evident that the colors can be more expeditiously applied than When the operator is painting upon a plain surface, and that the figures will also be much more uniform. The center is then inserted in the rim or cup forming the back of the button, in any of the modes now in use for inserting glass centers in buttons of that description.

The article thus formed becomes very desirable for its beauty, being especially adapted to childrens and ladies dresses, and is much more durable than any kind of painted or enameled button novv in use, since, the coloring being upon the inside of the button, is protected from injury from any source, and will remain permanent as long` as the article itself lasts.

lhat I claim as my invention7 is- The inserting of figures of uniform or variegated colors upon the inside of glass centered buttons, substantially in the Inode above described.

ARAD W. WELTON. Witnesses:

WILSON H. CLARK, JN0. S. BEACH. 

